Browsing by Author "Payne, Monica A."
Now showing items 1-5 of 6
-
“All Gas and No Brakes!”: Helpful metaphor or harmful stereotype?
(Sage, 2012)In this essay, I consider the concurrent emergence of a new generic metaphor for the adolescent condition and suggest that, given the familiar notions of a poorly controlled (or even totally out-of-control) state of being ... -
Are all teenagers emotionally illiterate? Charting a neuroscientific storying of normative deficit
(Routledge, 2012)Defining ‘emotional illiteracy’ is a task located within the broader context of expert (and subsequently public) assumptions regarding the normally expectable competencies of the age group concerned. In the late 1990s a ... -
Limitations unlimited: Interrogating some finer points of the 'scientific study' of adolescence
(Taylor & Francis, 2001)Radical epistemological critiques of developmental and social psychology are nothing new, and major methodological debates are now common even within the mainstream literature. Yet a considerable amount of research continues ... -
"Not right in the head": How should teachers assess new talk about teenagers?
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato., 2011)Recently in New Zealand the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor has warned of changing circumstances creating a "powder keg" during adolescence, another top government advisor is reported as claiming young people's ... -
Support and self-care: professional reflections of six New Zealand high school counselors
(Routledge, 2008)In many Western societies there is increasing demand for counselling; in turn, heightened levels of support needs have been identified for counsellors themselves. Despite calls for practitioners to adopt a more proactive ...
Co-authors for Monica A. Payne
Supervised by Monica A. Payne
Showing up to 5 theses - most recently added to Research Commons first.
-
Love me long time: safety and risk in heterocoupledom at adolescence.
(The University of Waikato, 2002)This thesis argues that heterocoupledom at adolescence discursively constitutes Girlfriends and Boyfriends as gendered subjects of safety and risk. The gendering of safety and risk operates to position Girlfriends as risk ... -
"Crossing the border" : An interpretive study of children making the transition to school
(The University of Waikato, 2004)This thesis explored the experiences of children and their families as the children started school at one Aotearoa/New Zealand primary school. The study followed the progress of seven case study children and their families, ... -
Narrative approaches in counselling supervision
(The University of Waikato, 2001)This thesis is an account of a project that investigated the possibilities for counselling supervision offered by the philosophical positions that produce narrative approaches to counselling. Thus, the research was positioned ... -
South African boys in New Zealand: Immigrants' retrospective accounts of adapting to life in a new country during adolescence
(University of Waikato, 2016)It is now estimated that around 50 million displaced persons (highest number since the end of World War 2), and as many as 10 million are ‘on the move’ between countries at the present time. Mass migration is now undoubtedly ...
